Watt a doll

Fair Game's Naomi Watts may be a huge star - but she's also the nicest woman in Hollywood

by Genevieve Loh, TodayOnoline
Jan 14, 2011

NAOMI Watts may be a bona fide Cannes Film Festival darling, walking the red carpet for her breakthrough role in David Lynch's Mulholland Drive in 2001, as well as for Doug Liman's Fair Game and Woody Allen's You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger last year.

The British-born Australian beauty may also be an Oscar nominee (21 Grams) and blockbuster box-office draw (The Ring and King Kong).

But the 42-year-old mother of two boys is undoubtedly still one of the most genuine and down-to-earth stars a journo could meet.

"Oh, let them take a photo or two first ... no problem at all!" she said to the harried PR folk fussing around her after our interview along the Croisette in Cannes, where Fair Game was in competition for the Palme d'or.

Naomi Watts as Elizabeth in "Mother and Child"

- by Alex in Movieland

There were at least three performances of Naomi Watts released in 2010, none of which gained too much love from the critics. However, I was completely captivated by her performance as a cold-hearted seductive lawyer in the fabulous indie film Mother and Child.

One might actually argue that this is a leading performance, due to the three-separate-stories structure that dominates the first part of the film. Mother and Child is a story about adoption and talks about three different women, each of them representing a different perspective on the subject: a woman obsessing on a decision made years ago, the child she gave up for adoption who’s now a successful lawyer and a woman desperately trying to adopt.